A new study shows Maryland produces enough chicken manure to create a pile twice as high as M&T Bank Stadium. Environmentalists say much of that pollutes the water.

It’s Maryland’s most money-making form of agriculture, but chicken farming produces something else: nearly 650 million pounds of manure every year–most of it is used as fertilizer. Activists say there’s not enough land to handle it all.

“So what we end up doing is putting it down on our fields anyway because we don’t have anywhere to put it right now. That’s a major problem. We need better regulations,” said Megan Cronin, Environment Maryland.

Now the group Environment Maryland is pushing lawmakers to enforce stronger rules to control the litter, which contains high levels of phosphorus. That’s a dangerous nutrient for waterways, where it often ends up.

A just released study shows phosphorus levels in the Choptank River have increased by an average of 1.9 percent every year from 2000 to 2008. And more than 60 percent of soil samples in the state’s crops have more phosphorus than they need.

Environmentalists say the runoff could not only destroy the waterways, but also the Maryland industries that rely on them to survive.

NEW study? these environmental idiots are going to regulate us into being a third world country who would even think of farming when the EPA is sniffing up a cows butt, our butt and now up a birds butt. we are saving ever thing but us and common sense,